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Our services

Creative research

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To address research gaps and expand knowledge, we conduct innovative research using cutting-edge approaches, methodologies, and insights. Our goal is to understand and unravel the complex threads of sustainable transitions while proposing comprehensive solutions that promote leadership, co-creation of enabling environments for just transition.

Leadership development

We empower leaders through a co-creation and creative learning process designed to guide individuals through life transitions. We hope that the skills and insights built from within during this process will help them lead confidently through life’s toughest transitions, responding to challenges such as policy shifts, market shocks, and technological and environmental changes.

Collaborative network development

We develop collaborative networks to co-create knowledge, initiate pilot interventions, and scale up solutions for greater impact. We engage through channels such as youth and women networks, local universities, community initiatives, associations, local media, and entrepreneur networks. We catalyze existing knowledge, ideas, and best practices to reach other localities and adapt to diverse contexts.

Technical assistance

Our technical assistance is to co-create an enabling environment for just transition. We promote skill transfers and upskilling training programs that enhance productivity of disadvantaged communities and individuals with essential skills to navigate the evolving landscape of work and life in the rapid changing world.

The topics we care about

Coal and energy transition

Design-led research

Sub-national fiscal policy

Financial mechanism and innovation

Women entrepreneurship

Youth leadership

Placemaking/place-based research

Degrowth in sustainable transition

Landscape composition and systems

Indigenous knowledge & traditional water system

Delta and coastal landscape

Climate-resilient design strategies

Nature based technologies

Ecologies of care

Everyday urbanism and everyday practices in urban transition

Strategic areas

Transition economy

The transition to a sustainable, equitable economy is at the heart of our mission. We're committed to powering this just transition by driving systemic shifts in key sectors, catalyzing the shift away from extractive, carbon-intensive models towards regenerative, community-centric systems. Through innovative policies, incentives, and market mechanisms, we're working to build an economy that works for people and the planet.

Transition planning

Strategic, collaborative transition planning is crucial to navigating complex economic transformations. Our team partners with governments, businesses, and communities to map pathways forward, identify barriers, and co-create roadmaps for a resilient, inclusive transition. By blending data-driven analysis with on-the-ground insights, we develop tailored transition plans that address the unique needs and aspirations of each context.

Transition leadership

At the heart of our mission is a commitment to values-driven, participatory leadership. We believe the transition must be guided by the wisdom and agency of frontline communities, workers, and marginalized groups. Through capacity building, skills training, and platforms for collective action, we're empowering diverse stakeholders to step into transition leadership roles. By centering equity, inclusion, and regeneration, we're charting a new model of transition governance.

Transition finance

Unlocking the necessary capital to fund the transition is a key pillar of our work. We pioneer innovative financing solutions - from green bonds and blended finance to community investment funds - that redirect capital flows towards sustainable, equitable ventures. Alongside this, we advocate for policy reforms and market incentives that align the financial system with transition goals. Our aim is to reshape the rules of the game to better support a just, prosperous transition.